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title: "Additional needs" (official UK term) means special educational need… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Additional needs" (official UK term) means special educational needs or a disability. Who acts: Additional needs. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers, sentence 22

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"Additional needs" (official UK term) means special educational needs or a disability.

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**Who acts:** Additional needs · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** special educational needs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Additional needs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:016-school-reports.lesson:22
# text = "Additional needs" (official UK term) means special educational needs or a disability.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 016-school-reports.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
6	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	educational	educational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	disability	disability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Additional needs | special educational needs or a disability |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:euphemisms:016-school-reports.lesson:22`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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